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Louis Goldford (États-Unis) est un compositeur dont les œuvres s'inspirent souvent de l'illusion auditive, de la transcription et de la psychanalyse. Il a collaboré avec des ensembles tels que JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62, Meitar Ensemble, Rage Thormbones et Yarn/Wire. Louis a récemment été nommé lauréat de la commission de composition Chou à Suzhou (Chine) en 2017. Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans de nombreux festivals de musique contemporaine à travers l’Europe et en Amérique du Nord et lors de conférences internationales, « International Computer Music Conference » et « June in Buffalo ». Louis a également joué comme saxophoniste et musicien électronique à Taïwan, en Pologne et aux États-Unis. Sa pièce Uncanny Valley (2014) pour orchestre a reçu une mention honorable par le Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute 2017 et l'American Composers Orchestra 2015/Underwood New Music Readings. Louis est actuellement bénéficiaire d’une bourse d’étude de l’Université Columbia à New York, où il étudie la composition avec Georg Friedrich Haas, Zosha Di Castri, George Lewis, Brad Garton et Fred Lerdahl.

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Louis GOLDFORD is a composer of acoustic and mixed music whose works often draw inspiration from auditory illusion, transcription, and psychoanalysis. Recent performances include those by Yarn/Wire, the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Modelo62, the Meitar Ensemble, the NOMOS Group, and Rage Thormbones. In 2019 Louis will complete his Cursus in computer music composition at IRCAM, supported by the Fulbright Commission in France. He is concurrently a Laureate in Music Composition and resident composer of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Upcoming engagements include new pieces for for Longleash, Fonema Consort, and the Talea Ensemble, a new commission for ASCAP/SEAMUS, and a new work for the 2019 ManiFESTE in Paris.

Louis was named the winner of the 2017 Suzhou (Chou’s) Composition Commission. His works have been featured at the Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC!2), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2015/2016), June in Buffalo, Contemporary Encounters with Meitar Ensemble (CEME) and with members of Ensemble Modern in Tel Aviv, the Valencia International Performance Academy and Festival (VIPA) in Spain, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States National Conference (SEAMUS), the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) at New England Conservatory, the Composit New Music Festival in Italy, and the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF). Louis has also performed as a saxophonist in Taiwan, Poland, and the United States. His work Uncanny Valley (2014) for large orchestra was given Honorable Mentions at the 2017 Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute and the 2015 American Composers Orchestra / Underwood New Music Readings, and in 2014 Louis was the recipient of a Dean’s Prize in Music Composition at Indiana University. Louis completed the Computer Music Workshop (Atelier d’informatique musicale) while studying at the IRCAM Académie and festival ManiFESTE. He was also a finalist in the 2013 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards for his Eric, Rising (2012) for orchestra.

Louis is currently a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University, where he studies with Georg Friedrich Haas, Zosha Di Castri, Brad Garton, George Lewis, and Fred Lerdahl.